A tin of chocolate taken from a German aircraft when it was shot down during the Second World War is to go on display at a museum in Dorset.
The Priest’’s House Museum in Wimborne will be exhibiting the item when it reopens after Christmas, the Daily Echo reports.
Those wanting to see the wartime relic while staying in Dorset holiday cottages may be pleased to hear that admission to the museum will be free for the two weeks that the item is being shown off.
It was retrieved when the plane was shot down in Sturminster Marshall on August 12th 1940 and came to light when historian Bill Coomer put out an appeal for items from the war when writing a book about the village in the 1990s.
"We have had it all those years," his wife Rita told the news source, adding offers to buy it have been refused as Mr Coomer "wanted it go somewhere anyone could see it".
House Museum is located inside an historic townhouse and also includes a working Victorian kitchen, as well as a Georgian parlour and 17th century hall.
Posted by David Sollberger
